‘Carry-On’ Starring Taron Egerton and Sofia Carson: Netflix Release Date and Everything We Know

Carry-On, produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment and starring Kingsman’s Taron Egerton, is one of Netflix’s most hotly anticipated upcoming movies scheduled to arrive in 2024. Here’s everything we know about Carry-On ahead of its December 2024 release. 

The movie will be directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, who helmed projects such as The Shallows, Unknown, Jungle Cruise, and Black Adam. TJ Fixman penned the screenplay’s first draft, with Michael Green doing the most recent polish. Fixman is also currently attached to Netflix’s Past Midnight.

First announced in July 2022, Carry-On is one of the projects in the pipeline produced by Amblin Partners as part of their overall deal with Netflix struck back in June 2021.  Holly Bario, Amblin’s president of production, will oversee the project on behalf of the studio. Brian Williams, Scott Greenberg, and Seth William Meier are listed as executive producers. Lorne Balfe serves as the composer, and Lyle Vincent as the cinematographer.

Here’s everything else we know about Netflix’s Carry-On:

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What’s the plot of Carry-On?

The thriller centers on Ethan Kopek, a young TSA agent who is blackmailed by a mysterious traveler into letting a dangerous package slip through security and onto a Christmas Day flight.

A short clip in the video montage revealed the first glimpse of the movie during Netflix’s Next on Netflix slate reveal.

In addition to the clip, Netflix released a first-look image still (embedded at the top of the article), and we also pulled a couple of screenshots ourselves seeing Sofia Carson and Jason Bateman in action:

In mid-October, Entertainment Weekly had your first look at the new movie with several new movies:

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Who is in the cast of Netflix’s Carry-On?

Netflix’s Carry-On will star Taron Egerton as its lead, Ethan Kopek. Egerton’s most recent projects include The Kingsman, Rocketman, and Black Bird. Deadline’s sources say he was the only actor to read and meet on the project; he and Collet-Serra instantly hit it off, and a deal to sign on quickly followed.

Since Egerton’s casting, Netflix has announced two rounds of additional casting, one on September 26th and the other on October 17th, 2022. Let’s break down the full cast list, then!

• Jason Bateman (Ozark) as Traveler
• Sofia Carson (Purple Hearts) as Nora Parisi
• Danielle Deadwyler (The Harder They Fall, the upcoming Till) as Elena Cole
• Logan Marshall-Green (Lou, Redeeming Love) as Agent Alcott
• Dean Norris (Breaking Bad, Claws) as Phil Sarkowski
  
• Sinqua Walls (White Men Can’t Jump, Nanny) as Jason Noble
• Tonatiuh (Angelyne, Promised Land) as Mateo Flores
• Joe Williamson (Black Bird, Ford v Ferrari) as Ron Dunn
  
• Gil Perez-Abraham (The Batman, Our Son) as Eddie
• Curtiss Cook (West Side Story, The Devil You Know) as Lionel Williams
  
• Josh Brener (Silicon Valley, All My Life) as Herschel
  
• Theo Rossi (True Story) as Watcher
• Benito Martinez (The Shield) as Security Director Marm Bellows
• Joe (Joseph) Williamson (Black Bird) as Ron Dunn
• Logan Macrae as Detective Elario
  
• Edwin Kho (Forelock) as Lance
• Reisha Reynolds as Nina
• Adam Stephenson (Emancipation) as Jesse
• Michael Scott (American Crime Story) as Samir
• Jeff Pope (Black Snake Moan) as Olek
• Jill Flint (Garden State) as Congresswoman Grace Turner
• Spencer Crim (Putting Love to the Test) as Mr. Herter
• Martina Meneses (Three Months) as Maria

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What’s the production status of Carry-On?

Netflix’s Carry-On was initially set to begin filming in the US on September 26, 2022, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Cleveland, Ohio. Production was tentatively set to wrap on December 16, 2022, according to Production Weekly issue 1309.

However, it wasn’t until October 18th that social posts began surfacing that production had started. Taron Egerton posted on October 18th, “First day of school!” Thanks to the excellent Instagram account Carry On updates on Instagram, they managed to find numerous pictures from the set and from various actors throughout the production. Here are a few of the best snaps:

Writer T. J. Fixman provided an update via Instagram on November 16th, 2022, saying:

“Today I talked to a character I invented, stood by the gate of an airline I made up, and witnessed a crime I planned in my head almost ten years ago. Today I walked through my imagination, and it was pretty cool.”

Production continued throughout the New Year, with Gentilly Messenger reporting that filming occurred in New Orleans in early January 2023.

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What’s the Netflix release date for Carry-On?

The movie first received a release date window nod from Netflix when it unveiled its upcoming slate of action movies and series in May 2023, but it ultimately didn’t release in 2023. Instead, as part of the Next on Netflix slate reveal in February 2024, Netflix confirmed the movie would be released at some point, finally confirming the release date as August 28th. 

Carry-On will be released on Netflix globally on Friday, December 13th, 2024. The movie features a runtime of 1 hour and 59 minutes and is rated PG-13.

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Once again, if you want even more behind-the-scenes pictures and information, there’s an excellent Instagram account called carry_onupdates that collates all available information.

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